Using the Boards with Thunderbird: Difference between revisions
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==Setting up Thunderbird== | ==Setting up Thunderbird== | ||
Go into account properties, select add account, pick newsgroup. | Go into account properties, select add account, pick newsgroup.<br> | ||
Enter your name, and your redbrick email address | Enter your name, and your redbrick email address.<br> | ||
For Newsgroup server enter "localhost" | For Newsgroup server enter "localhost"<br> | ||
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Once you've done all that all thats left to do is change from the default port to the one we've set up the forwarding on, so go into the settings for the account and change the 119 to 1119 | Once you've done all that all thats left to do is change from the default port to the one we've set up the forwarding on, so go into the settings for the account and change the 119 to 1119 | ||
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[[Image:News_thunderbird_2.jpg|News_thunderbird_2.jpg]] | [[Image:News_thunderbird_2.jpg|News_thunderbird_2.jpg]] | ||
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And thats it, happy posting. | And thats it, happy posting. | ||
Revision as of 22:27, 3 March 2007
How to use the boards in thunderbird (or, presumably any other client, but they're crap)
Connecting to Redbrick
To connect you have to forward a port as part of your ssh connection, so this will only work while your connected to redbrick. On redbrick, the only server that supports this is deathray, so you must connect to deathray first, and then you can ssh to murphy.
Linux/Unix/Mac
Normally to connect you would type something like
ssh username@login.redbrick.dcu.ie
Instead type
ssh -L 1119:carbon.internal:119 username@136.206.15.3
and you'll be prompted for your password like normal. To get onto murphy then just type
ssh murphy
If you're really cool and use gnome, you can setup a nice desktop launcher with this command
gnome-terminal --command="ssh -L 1119:carbon.internal:119 username@136.206.15.3" --hide-menubar
Windows
I'll write this later when I bother to find a windows pc.
Setting up Thunderbird
Go into account properties, select add account, pick newsgroup.
Enter your name, and your redbrick email address.
For Newsgroup server enter "localhost"
Once you've done all that all thats left to do is change from the default port to the one we've set up the forwarding on, so go into the settings for the account and change the 119 to 1119
To subscribe to boards, just click on "Manage Newsgroup subscriptions"
And thats it, happy posting.